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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 1. 1947 (Sunday)
o Crater Lake aerie, Fraternal
Order of Eagles, will sponsor
activation ceremony of Com
pany A, 186th Infantry regiment,
National Guard, Monday.
From Arthur -Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The fed
eral housing expediter has re
signed, and was expedited right
into a bigger job.
O
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20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 1. 1937 (Monday)
Wonders of subconscious
mind will be revealed tonight
by Viola Sweet in resuming her
series of lectures at St. Mark's
Guild hall.
Three Oregon Normal foot
ball players admit they were in
volved in the beating and rob
bery Saturday night at Ashland
of a Texas salesman.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 1. 1927 (Tuesday)
The county tax budget for
the year reveals an increase in
population, a healthy financial
condition, a reduction in the
county bonded indebtedness and
that the levy for the county
will be at least 2.8 mills less
than last year.
The Better Homes Exposition
and Holiday Jubilee scheduled
at the armory for four days
starting Dec. 7 will be the
largest indoor exposition ever
attempted in the valley history.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 1. 1917 (Thursday)
After having been lost in the
mountains 22 miles from Butte
Falls since Sunday noon, Joseph
Howard, 63, of Medford, is
found exhausted in the woods
near a trail. (
The Southern Pacific company
has reported that subscriptions
to the second Liberty loan by
15,000 employees of the system
totalled $1,646,950.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. What is the name for a male
fox?
2. Bible: Which writings com
prise the best of literature of the
ancient Hebrew peoples?
3. Who is known as the "Fath
er of Pennsylvania"?
4. On which island is the fa
mous resort of Coney Island?
5. Haligonian is the name for
the natives of what city in Nova
.Scotia?
6. Who wrote "Early to -bed,
early to rise, makes a man
healthy, wealthy and wise"4
7. Matter is or is not-iShde-structible?
8. Who is known as the "Im
mortal Bard"?
9. Horses can or cannot sleep
while standing?
10. The capital of which coun
try is S. A. is named Quito?
Answers: 1. Dog; 2. Old Testa
ment; 3. William Penn; 4. Long
Island. N. Y.; 5. Halifax; Ben
jamin Franklin; 7. Is; 8. William
Shakespeare; 9. Can; 10. Ecua
dor. FAMED WALKER DIES
West EnglewoOd, N. J. e HP!
Centenarian James Horace Hock
ing, famous for his featsas a
walker, died Thursday of a
stroke suffered two weeks ago.
Hocking, 101, held many ama
teur walking records and once
estimated that he had hiked
275,000 miles in long distance
walks starting in 1875.
MAIL TRIBUNE
It s More Than Just Money
Local property taxes are fairly substantial this
year.
If the proposed bond issue for two new Medford
schools plus additions at the high school is passed
by the voters next Tuesday, the tax rate will increase
slightly.
Question: What would happen if the bond issue
is voted down?
The answers fall into several categories, each of
them deserving of sincere consideration by parents,
taxpayers, teachers and just plain interested citizens.
OEE are some of the things which would happen:
n 1. Education would suffer. Youngsters would
have to continue using sub-standard rooms which
have been pressed into service this year. Soon, addi
tional and unsatisfactory measures, such as "double
shifting" would have to be employed. Both teachers
and students would be overburdened o? distracted.
2. Income to the school district from state funds
which now accounts for about 30 per cent of the
district's budget would be jeopardized. The state
insists that certain standards be met, and if they are
not, school monies can be
additions are not provided
a whole cannot maintain its standard rating.
3. Ultimately, taxes would increase proportion
ately more. The proposed plan would solve school
building reeds for about four years. If it is delayed,
costs may well be higher and needs will be -greater,
o o.
"1X7E HAVE followed the development of the plans
for this bond issue and construction program
with interest. It has been done carefully and thought
fully, with full realization of the fact that taxpayers
should get their full dollar's worth.
The total amount being asked for approval
$1,786,000 sounds large, and it is if cconsidered
solely as a sum of money. But it is more than a large
sum of money. It is an investment in the future of the
children of this community the most valuable re
source we have.
And, according to our way of thinking, the plans
for this investment have been laid conservatively
we hope not too much so.
FUNDAMENTALLY, our school problems simmer
down to just one big problem the increasing
number of children. All the others arise out of the
necessity to providefor their education.
Construction of buildings is 8ne of the subsidiary
problems brought up by the main one. And this pro
posal does not call for
"gilded palaces or "extra gingerbread.
Medf ord's school-construction costs are lower than
the average for Oregon as a whole, and5 Oregon's
average costs are lower than any state oujtside the
South. The present plan would be in line with this
conservative approach, and the architects have been
instructed to design buildings as economically as
possible, gnd with maximum possible use of local
materials.
BUT school building costs involve more than con
mmh'nnSMninfnn'inno rec! nf o nlnaari Tim lrll no.
nver a neriod oi vears. often
price of a m&re durable building. Taxpayers gain
temporarily "hen a cheap building is built; they lose
in the long run.
We have heard criticisms 8f school board mem
bers, teachers, PTA members and others interested
ir?the schools for publicly endorsing and working for
support of needed school measures.
This is the most asinine argument of the lot. Who
else better knows the need? Who else better knows
the facts? And how are the taxpayers and voters to
learn the situation if someone who DOES know
doesn't? tell them?
O
I
T IS a rare voter indeed who will take the time and
trnnhlp. tn find out for himself all the details of any
specific proposal. He waits to be told. And if he is
not told, he's pretty likely to vote "no."
The school administration this year has prepared
a 27-page leaflet entitled "Questions and Answers on
Medford School District's Building Needs."
It is an excellent job of presenting the facts. It is
not a "propaganda" job, but a factual presentation
of just about every bit of inf ormation needed to make
an intelligent decision on the bond issue. It goes into
the present enrollments at the schools, school capaci
ties, figures on enrollment, costs, and future esti
mates, the plans and possible alternatives, and so
on and so on.
"THE district is to be commended for doing this job.
Part of its responsibility is to keep school patrons
informed. It would be remiss if it did not. Copies of
the leaflet are available to any citizen of the school
district.
Operating Medford's schools is a multi-million
dollar business. And for our money, it is being oper
ated in a businesslike manner. Part of this is keeping
the public the "stockholders," so to speak informed
of the problems, the needs, and the proposed solutions.
No one will deny that mistakes have ben made
in the past. People, after all, are human
The important thing, more important thaji worry
ing about errors of the past, is to avoidhengin the
future, and to keep the school system aljye, progres
sive, responsive, and doing the best job possible for
the citizens of the future. E.A.
Friday. November 1. J957
withheld. If the needed
for, the school system as
the construction of either
w
briner total costs over the
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The Record-A
O Washington, D. C. (Special;
The record a year after the
1956 election on performance
fit the Eisenhower campaign
promises is mixed, probably in
evitably so. The President ran
for re-election on a G.O.P. plat
form that pledged, among other
things, a strong national defense
"the most effective guided and
ballistic missiles" and "further
reductions in taxes" when con
sistent with a balanced budget.
Well, a current Washington quip
has it that the -radio signals
Sputnik I is sending out transl
ate as "No U.S. tax cut in 1958".
The Republicans promised to
"maintain the purchasing power
of a sound dollar." In terms of
the 1947-1949 dollar, the dollar
in September 1957 was worth
83c 3c less than in September
1956.
Back when the boast was
"Everything's booming but the
guns," the G.O.P. pledged "good
business for all business" and
full-time employment of 66 mil
lion persons. In September 1957,
employment stood at 65.6 mil
lion, off 150,000 from Septem
ber 1956. Agriculture had suf
fered most, with bad weather
causing a loss of 869,000 jobs.
But gross national product
reached a $439 billion rate in the
third quarter of this year as
against $416.7 billion in the
third quarter of 1956. And the
Congressional Joint Economic
Committee predicted, Oct. 9, that
the fourth quarter total would
be $17 billion to $19 billion
higher than the $426 billion of
the fourth quarter of 1956.
For some specific domestic is
sues, the G.O.P. 1956 platform
endorsed the Supreme Court's
school desegregation decision
but noted that "use of force or
violence by any group or agency
will tend only to worsen the
many problems inherent in the
situation." President Eisenhower
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Here is some guesswork on
the Khrushchev-Zhi&ov ruckus.
The excuse for it is that when
one can't get facts one has to
guess and in Moscow FACTS
are 6oncealed riy a fabulously
rigid and efficient censorship.
K. C. Thaler of the United
Press says in a dispatch from
London this morning that the
"wily and iron-nerved Nikita
Khrushchev" has won another
bloodless coup that signifies a
return to virtually unrestrained
one-man dictatorship in the So
viet Union.
He reports that diplomatic
sources in London think he has
won a victory over Marshal Zhu
kov that puts Khrushchev back
into Stalin's shoes as the SU
PREME POWER in the Krem
lin which means the supreme
power in Russia.
He adds:
"These beliefsQwere further
borne out by Khrushchev's own
statement yesterday described
by diplomats as "arrogant"
that he could now offer Zhukov
a new job "in line with his ex
perience and qualifications."
THAT is to say (assuming that
guesses are accurate) Khru
schev can say to Zhukov:
"OK Bud; you know now
who's BOSS. Since you know
who is the boss, I'll give you
some jobs to do that will save
your face."
THERE is another interesting
dispatch on the wires as this
is written also guesswork. It
reads:
"Russia is believed to be ready
NOW to let the Middle East war
scare die a natural death. So
viet Foreign Minister Gromyko
made an unusually mild reply
yesterday to the United States
attack in the United Nations . . .
and Khrushchev said in Mos
cow last night that "the com
pass seems to have swung toward
peace in the Middle East."
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MR. WILSQN ? TRAT& MUD.
jT?
Year Later
said on Oct. 29 a year ago that
the civil rights question should
be settled "to the greatest pos
sible extent on a local and state
basis." The use of federal troops
in Little Rock, Ark., must be as
sessed in the light of these state
ments. The Republicans pledged "fur
ther reduction in government
spending," and the President on
Oct. 16, 1956 described his gov
ernment as "prudent in the use
of the people's 3money." On Jan.
16 he submitted to Congress a
$71.8 billio budget a peace
time peak.
Farm prices under the G.O.P.
the President said on Sept. 25,
had turned up "without a war."
They're still up tax index stood
at 245 per cent of the 1910-1914
average in September, as against
236 per cent in September 1956.
cThe President, Oct. 11, 1956,
insisted that "the opposition
controlled Congress"- had killed
his school aid bill. He took the
same position this year when the
school bill was killed, but Demo
crats attributed its defeat to lack
of administration leadership.
The G.O.P. in 1956 would
work to "end the injustices of
nations divided 0 against their
will. . . subject to foreign dom
ination." The President on Sept.
19, 1956 listed the foreign policy
gains of his administration and
promised to try to "ease, for all
men everywhere, the burden of
arms and fears."
In the intervening 12 months,
the most striking foreign policy
step has been the Eisenhower
Doctrine for the Middle East,
but now Secretary of State Dul
les says it doesn't apply to the
present situation in Syria. Other
wise the foreign record, mixed
also, is highlighted by the re
knitting of the nearly wrecked
Anglo-U.S. alliance and the in
ability to aidSthe rebels in Hung
ary. Editorial Research Reports.
JENKINS
WHAT does that mean?
Well, it MIGHT mean that
the war scare in the Middle East
(which consisted largely of
rough and MENACING talk by
Russia) was blown up deliberate
ly by Khrushchev to distract at
tention, in Russia and elsewhere,
away from his0proposed bludg
eoning of Zhukov.
That, of course, is pure guess
work, but it seems to make a
certain amount of sense. If Rus
sia continues to roar more gen
tly in the Middle East and, if
it appears that Zhukov HAS
been broken and destroyed as
an opponent of Khrushchev it
will make more sense.
rpHERE is still another inter
esting little tale on the
wires.
A Paris newspaper says an
EXPERIMENTAL Soviet earth
satellite had disintegrated over
France on Aug. 19 of this year.
The newspaper story says the
satellite was photographed by a
French camera to record stray
meteors. French astronomers
say the experimental Sputnik
exploded because it was launch
ed improperly and began travel
ing through friction-producing
air.
The report, if true, upsets the
Russian claim that the current
Sputnik was launched success
fully ON THE FIRST TRY. It
suggests also that the whole
Sputnik enterprise might have
been cooked up as a distraction
to Jake world attention, includ
ing?! RUSSIAN attention, away
from Khrushchev's scheme to
get3 Zhukov out of his way.
ENOUGH'S ENOUGH
Fort Worth, Tex. W Joe
Long is ready to join the urban
movement. Long, who reads
water meters in suburban For
est Hills, opened a meter Thurs
day, reached down to brush off
the cobwebs and a snake bit
him. Doctors doubted if the
suburban reptile was poisonous.
Zhykov's Release Tops Weeks
Balance Sheet of Foreign News
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet:
The "release" of Marshal
Georgi K. Zhukov as Soviet de
fense minister got big headlines
in newspapers
all over the
world this
week. Mysti
fied diplomats
believed at
first that Zhu
kov headed for
a bigger job,
perhaps as pre
mier. But it
a p p eared in
Charles McCanD
creasingly certain as the days
passed that Zhukov was ousted
because he was a threat to
Nikita S. Khrushchev, first sec
retary of the Russian Communist
Party, as No. 1 leader.
In control of the armed forces,
Zhukov was in a position of
great power. Experts on Russia
had speculated on the possi
bility that one day the army
might take over supreme au
thority from the Communist
Party.
This thought apparently oc
curred to Khrushchev, too. But
he controlled the Communist
Party machine, which reaches
into every village in the Soviet
Union, and he decided to act.
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To the Editor: I do not know
who Mr. or Mrs. F. M. Z. or
B. F. S. are but they expressed
the feelings of a good many peo
ple that I have talked to about
the service we are getting from
KBES-TV. I have been going to
call them up or write them. It
seems too bad that we have
put so much money in a TV set
and then not have any good out
of it.
I am 75 years old and I like
to have a little enjoyment in my
few years left so I got a TV
and for the last 3 or 4 months
the TV has been off and on so
much that you can not tell how
the thing came out and when it
comes on the picture is divided
in two by a black line or it is
so spotted that you can hardly
see it and that old alibi that it
is the telephone company or the
national hook-up is getting stale.
Ii they can't run the station
why don't they sell out or get
someone that can and quit try
inj to fool the people. We are
getting wise and we will have
to go back to an old radio.
Ray Garland
Box 81,
Talent, Ore.
P.S. Whoever F.M.Z and
B. F. S. are, keep up the good
work and maybe we will get
real TV.
Comments on F. R. McCabe
To the Editor: This is in re
gard to some of the publications
that Floyd R. McCabe. has made.
First off is his criticizing of
someone else. How does he know
quite so much? Other people
people don't. They are not ig
norant either.
I myself, have lived around
Butte Falls for 29 years. I have
no comment, only for what I
have brought upon myself.
Secondly, about Qthe Jackson
county workers working on the
roads. They are doing a good
job. As for Mr. McCabe, he
doesn't get away from home
often to see the county mainten
ance on our roads, it's not all
stockpiling either.
As for me, I love my neigh
bors and surrounding people. I
also have a lot of friends.
Ray Odin
Butte Falls, Ore.
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Holmes Urges Toll-free
Interstate Bridge
Salem (IP) Efforts to keep
the new Portland - Vancouver
bridge free of tolls were en
dorsed by Gov. Robert D. Holmes
today.
In a letter to mayors of both
cities, Gov. Holmes said "this!
vital link in our interstate high
way system should be toll free.
I shall do all within my power
to help achieve this result." I
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He won out
Bubbling over with good
humor, Khrushchev turned up
at a Turkish embassy reception.
He told the foreign correspond
ents who besieged him with
questions Zhukov would get a
job corresponding to his "ex
perience and qualifications."
By attending the reception,
Khrushchev exposed the com
plete falsity of the vicious cam
paign in which Russia had ac
cused the United States and
Turkey of plotting to attack
Syria.
In the United Nations, Rus
sian and Syrian spokesmen con
tinued to blow up the alleged
threat to peace. But it was an
anti-climax.
Russia's months-long stream of
threats to western countries,
combined with its testing of an
inter-continental ballistic missile
and its launching of the Sputnik
earth satellite, spurred the mem
bers of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization to action.
It was announced that heads
of state of the 15 NATO allies,
including President Eisenhower,
would meet in Paris on Decem
ber 16 to tighten up their co
operation for defense against
Communist aggression.
Smaller Cars Coming,
Roger Babson Declares
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. The au
tomobile business has had a
rather poor spring and summer.
However, I
look for a good
fourth quarter
salewise. Also,
I predict that
total domestic
production for
1957 will top
6,000,000 units.
It may be as
high as 6,200,-
Roger W Babson 000, or 6.8 per
cent above last year. However,
that would still be" 22 per cent
below the peak year of 1955.
Many competent observers feel
that last year's downtown in
auto sales and this year's only
moderate recovery indicate that
we made too many cars in 1955.
In that year we produced near
ly 8,000,000 units. These people
feel that the industry must now
undergo a further period of ad
justment while the nation "digests"-
the overproduction of
1955. I think there is some truth
in such reasoning. - However, I
there are additional factors in
volved in the dip in auto sales.
The current rolling readjust
ment in general business must
also be taken into account as
an adverse sales factor. There
are increasing indications that
the dip also reflects some sales
resistance on the part of people
who just do not like the car
styling and performance being
turned out by Detroit at the
present time. !
What Do the People? Need?
In their haste to turn the tide
after last year's poor sales show
ing, car makers concentrated on
extreme-styling eye appeal. They
came out with cars longer than
necessary. They loaded them
with gadgets designed to catch
the eye. These longer, heavier
cars require more horsepower.
They burn more gas and most
of them have engines which will
operate efficiently only with
high-octane gas.
At a time when automobile
congestion may choke out the
very downtown life of our large
cities, car makers have added
to the problem by making cars
which need more parking space
and cost more to maintain. These
giant new cars may fulfill the
desires and ambitions of many
people, but do they meet the
needs of postwar America to
day? Certainly they will be mar
ketable only through intensive
advertising.
Make Smaller Cars
Some United States automo
bile manufacturers contend that
they cannot build a small car
that will compete successfully on
a volume basis with a good used
car of standard size. They may
be correct. But the time will
come when Detroit must face
facts. The r.utomobile has con
tributed much to our American
way of life. It has led to the
development of the suburbs. It
has provided and it now pro
vides employment for large
numbers of our people, directly
or indirectly. Ours is a wheeled
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This was the last thing Rus
sia would have desired. But it
was thanks to Russian bellicosity
that a long-overdue tightening
was decided upon.
In an interesting sidelight to
the Zhukov-Khrushchev develop
ments, President Tito of inde
pendent Communist Yugoslavia
announced that his lumbago was
bothering him. Hence, he said,
he would be unable to attend
the big celebration in Moscow
next Thursday of the 40th an
niversary of the Bolshevik revo
lution. Tito apparently foresaw
that the speeches about Commu
nist unity would have a hollow
ring.
France's cabinet crisis, which
started on Sept. 30 with the
ouster of Maurice Bourges
Maunoury as premier, entered
its second month.
Candidate after candidate had
tried vainly to get sufficient sup
port to form a new cabinet.
The latest candidate was Felix
Gaillard, finance minister in
Bourges - Maunoury's ministry.
He planned to go before the Na
tional Assembly, the controlling
house of parliament, next Tues
day to seek a vote of confidence
on a new ministry.
economy in the best sense of
that term.
A good deal of our prosperity
today stems from our success
in having mass-produced the au
tomobile and having made it
readily available to vast num
bers of our people. However,
that prosperity could be seri
ously threatened if we continue
to misuse the automobile. The
car of tomorrow will be smaller,
more functionally styled, though
still beautiful. It will be cheaper
to buy, to operate, and to main
tain. And it will be safer to use.
More Foreign Cars
While going all out for size
and flashy styling, Detroit is not
entirely blind to the act that
there is a market for small cars
here. Only one major domestic
producer does not have a for
eign subsidiary making small,
economical foreign cars for ex
port to the U.S. Small car de
mand has been doubling each
year for some time now. If this
trend continues, and I predict
it will, U.S. car makers may be
forced to revise their thinking
on car size.
Perhaps the European cars
now being imported are too
small to attract wide market sup
port in the U.S. However, their
reception has been encouraging.
It proves that many motorists
are not fully satisfied with what
Detroit is now turning out.
Somewhere between these mon
sters of the road and the -toy
cars of Europe lies the answer
to our real needs. Within the
next five years I look for stand
ard American cars of smaller,
though adequate, size at much
less cost. I predict also that
improvements in engine design
will permit great savings in gas
consumption.
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